How to format your references using the Cambridge Journal of Economics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cambridge Journal of Economics (CJE). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Sánchez-Bayo, F. 2014. Environmental science. The trouble with neonicotinoids, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 346, no. 6211, 806–7

A journal article with 2 authors

Rolett, B. and Diamond, J. 2004. Environmental predictors of pre-European deforestation on Pacific islands, Nature, vol. 431, no. 7007, 443–46

A journal article with 3 authors

Brisbin, I. L., Jr, Austad, S., and Jacobson, S. K. 2000. Canine detectives: the nose knows-or does it?, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 290, no. 5494, 1093b

A journal article with 15 or more authors

Hoffmann, A. A., Montgomery, B. L., Popovici, J., Iturbe-Ormaetxe, I., Johnson, P. H., Muzzi, F., Greenfield, M., Durkan, M., Leong, Y. S., Dong, Y., Cook, H., Axford, J., Callahan, A. G., Kenny, N., et al. 2011. Successful establishment of Wolbachia in Aedes populations to suppress dengue transmission, Nature, vol. 476, no. 7361, 454–57

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Derryberry, D. R. 2014. Basic Data Analysis for Time Series with R, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Zeng, J. 2015. Type-2 Fuzzy Graphical Models for Pattern Recognition, (Z.-Q. Liu, Ed.), Studies in Computational Intelligence, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Franklin, M. E. and Tolin, D. F. 2007. What Should be Done?, pp. 51–60, in Tolin, D. F. (ed.), Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems, New York, NY, Springer

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Cambridge Journal of Economics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Genes Connected to Autism Active During Fetal Development, IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/genes-connected-autism-active-during-fetal-development/ (date last accessed 30 October 2018)

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 2016. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed: U.S. Government Printing Office GAO-17-88

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Finley, S. 2014. ‘How online communication and social media networking are used in alcohol use treatment’, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Gustines, G. G. 2015. From the Drawing Board to the Page, New York Times, C30

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Sánchez-Bayo, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Rolett and Diamond, 2004; Sánchez-Bayo, 2014).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Rolett and Diamond, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cambridge Journal of Economics
ISSN (print)	0309-166X
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